Compounded grief

Oct. 6, 2006

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THE JOURNAL NEWS
THE JOURNAL NEWS

Mistakes in the Jeffrey Deskovic case continue to compound misery in retrospect: While the youth was in prison more than a dozen years ago, wrongly convicted in the slaying of Peekskill high classmate Angela Correa, the admitted real assailant was busy killing someone else. That reality, made plain by staff writer Jonathan Bandler's enterprising reporting yesterday and today, adds new impetus for an investigation into what went wrong in the Deskovic case.

Sleuthing by Bandler led to Eastern Correctional Facility and inmate Steven Cunningham, who is serving a life sentence in the April ...